EMAIL: microame@uniandes.edu.co

NAME: Robert Garcia

TOPIC: Time

COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.

RENDERER USED: 3D Studio 3

TOOLS USED: 3D Studio 3, Fractal Design Painter 2.0, Blob Sculptor 1.0 (freeware)

RENDER TIME: 9 minutes, 40 seconds

HARDWARE USED: PC Clone - 486DX4 100Mhz, 16 Meg RAM

IMAGE DESCRIPTION: A pocket watch whose inner workings went berserk and formed a type of mechanical bug.

DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS IMAGE WAS CREATED: I used 3-D Studio for creating almost all of the watch's parts.
The gears were made with an IPAS routine called (guess) "gears", which makes gear's teeth, and later added the gears' "body".
I made the background image, and retouched some material textures using Fractal Design Painter's airbrush tool.
The watch's inner machinery is a graphic mapped on to a bunch of amorphous blobs that I made using Blob Sculptor.
The gloomy lighting effect is done with 3d Studio's ability to project bitmaps through a spotlight.
The projected bitmap is just black and white vertical bands with a touch of Gaussian Blur added on for a little light diffusion effect.
I realize that there are better ways to do all this, but I've only just begun to create raytraced images. Don't let my software fool you.